Professor Juri Grin, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids in Dresden, Germany (since 2001) was conferred the degree of Doctor Philosophiae honoris causa…
Category: Awards & Prizes
UKRAINE: Meet Fulbright Scholars 2016-2017 in Ukraine
11 researchers and four students from different fields of research and various U.S. universities, including Yale School of Medicine and Yara Arts Group in New York, will come…
GERMANY, Munich: First two historians start research, supported by the German-Ukrainian History Commission
First two historians start their research stay in Munich, supported by the German-Ukrainian History Commission The Graduate School for East and South Eastern European Studies in Munich is…
UKRAINE: Ukrainian tech start-up Polyteda Cloud won a EUR 1.2 million funding from Horizon 2020
The EU is investing into the 2-year project “Innovative Cloud-Based PV Workflow for Semiconductor Foundries” to enable Polymeda Cloud enter the European market. Its software for circuit verification…
Vadim Berezinskii and the Berezinskii–Kosterlitz–Thouless transition, for which John M. Kosterlitz and David J. Thouless were awarded the Nobel Prize in 2016
An interesting insight into the earlier contribution of Kyiv-born Vadim Berezinskii, which was among discoveries that led to the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics: “One year before the…
UKRAINE: Аnton Naumovets is one of four scientists awarded the 2016 UNESCO Medal for Contributions to the Development of Nanoscience and Nanotechnologies
On 11 October 2016, 4 eminent scientists and 2 institutions received the UNESCO Medals for Contributions to the Development of Nanoscience and Nanotechnologies during a ceremony held at…
Horizon 2020 funding helps Ukrainian start-up expand to European markets
The start-up ‘Streamozone’ of the National Scientific Centre ‘Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology’ was successful in joining 30 organisations from 15 countries worldwide as a member of…
Alexander Filippov has been awarded the Georg Forster Research Award by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Professor Alexander Filippov (Donetsk, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine) is well known internationally for his outstanding research in the fields of theoretical and applied physics. He has…
UKRAINE: Elsevier Announced Winners of 2016 Ukrainian Scopus Awards
The Ukrainian Scopus Awards, organized for the first time this year, aim to foster Ukrainian research excellence and collaboration. The winners were selected by the Ministry of Education…
GERMANY, Frankfurt/Main: Neuroscientist Tatjana Tchumatchenko awarded the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize 2016
Neuroscientist Tatjana Tchumatchenko awarded the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize 2016 Dr Tatjana Tchumatchenko leads the research group “Theory of Neural Dynamics” at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research…